The animal's venom works by causing tiny clots in the blood, stopping the blood from clotting inside the body and making its victim bleed to death.
As described previously [31], thoracic aortas were excised from 4-week old mice, flushed with media to remove the clotted blood inside, and the periadventitial fibroadipose tissue trimmed away.
Inside, it's clotted cream and country estates.
When I unscrewed it and peered inside, I was confronted with a slimy, slightly clotted dark film covering the stainless-steel interior.
I could barely get the key into the padlock, it was so clotted with ocean sand, and then I couldn't get the door open: inside, the contents of the bungalow had shifted.
A large blood clot inside his brain – "thick, like grape jelly" — was exerting tremendous pressure.
Perhaps the most damaging effect is intravascular clotting, the formation of clots inside blood vessels that deprives tissues of needed oxygen and can result in organ shutdown.
After a daylong hearing on Tuesday, the advisory panel, voted 9 to 0 to recommend prasugrel's approval for patients who develop sudden blood clots inside a coronary artery, a problem called acute coronary syndrome.
Compression is commonly due to a blood clot inside the brain or formed outside or beneath the dura mater (extra- or subdural hematoma), but inherent swelling of the brain tissue following trauma is also possible as fluid leaks from small blood vessel spaces into the extravascular space (brain edema).
Another robotic tool, presently in the earliest stages of development, will let eye surgeons bust up clots inside minuscule blood vessels.
